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ASP.NET MVC [HandleError] and logging
18 Jun
Recently I’ve been a bit surprised to find out that ASP.NET MVC [HandleError] attribute forces your website to bypass the Application_Error event. I wouldn’t…
VMWare hard lessons
11 Jun
Well, I learned a hard lesson today when I decided to give more hard drive space to one of our virtual machines. We run…
Sorting out SVN checkin/checkout issues
07 May
As a software developer I work with SVN (our source control system) pretty extensively on a day-to-day basis. Having worked with several other systems…
Transparent login between ASP.NET web sites
22 Mar
Consider this scenario: you have 2 or more ASP.NET websites which use the same SQL database for their “forms” type of authentication. In the…
Cross-domain login in ASP.NET
09 Mar
At the moment we are extending a classic asp website and a new ASP.NET CMS (let it be website A) is a main part…
Creating deployment packages in SVN
21 Jan
In software development (in an ASP.NET web development in particular) there are always repetitive time consuming tasks, which we would like to automate somehow. One of…
“Capitalise” jquery extension
16 Dec
Sometimes there is a requirement to capitalise certain text input elements in web forms, i.e. to make just the first symbol uppercase when the…
Email source code in MS Outlook
16 Dec
The Problem
I’m sure some of you may have been puzzled when you have had a need to see the original source code of emails…
Developing faster web forms in .NET
15 Dec
Quite often, I develop web forms containing heavy elements, in particular large select tags, which can be a bit of a problem. All pages…
ASP.NET selectors in jquery
09 Dec
Jquery is a great javascript library, although it has a significant drawback when used in ASP.NET web applications. Because of the way ASP.NET translates…
